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tripletail
DEFINITIONS OF:
tripletail
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n
large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail
Types:
Atlantic tripletail
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Lobotes surinamensis
tripletail found from Cape Cod to northern South America
Lobotes pacificus
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Pacific tripletail
tripletail found in the Pacific
Type of:
percoid
,
percoid fish
,
percoidean
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
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